E30 Zone

hi people get my e30 back from paint in a 2 weeks time and want to get some new wheels .what wheels suit the e30 the best sugestions please with pics if poss

Im bias Hartge's



15" or 16" but I would not go larger if you interested in handling

depends what look your going for but i like alpinas or deep dish.

14" bottlecaps of course - accept no substitute!

Alpinas have been done to death.
Nice set of hartge splits in the for sale section, you cant get better than those.imo

in my opinion go deep dish / splits with black centres.

http://members.nusurf.at/klingerhelmut/ ... e_styling/

have fun it can give you ideas

snooka wrote:http://members.nusurf.at/klingerhelmut/ ... e_styling/

have fun it can give you ideas

and the award for best link ever goes too.....

i'm ptting this link every 2 weeks on the zone all those 'wheels' topics

Schnitzer 16x7 type 1 w black centres...






or BBS RS 16x7

Deep Dish BBS

Deep dish bbs all the way,
but then again they are not really for E30s as they are 5 stud, we should be looking at 4 studs only

Borbet A, B, C, Azev A's go down a treat, Deep Dish BBS go as well, and of course the old tried and tested Alpinas.

blaktoutbm wrote:Deep Dish BBS

without a doubt!

Azev A's I'd go for , as said Alpinas look great but they're 2 a penny IMO

18" Alpina, i know they're done too death but they just look right IMO.
Andy

l4ume wrote:hi people get my e30 back from paint in a 2 weeks time and want to get some new wheels .what wheels suit the e30 the best sugestions please with pics if poss

Wheels that suit the E30 the best? 15" BMW BBS of course.



2nd best...

2nd best...

but they are designed by a man called Herbert, ye cannay have that laddie!!

Oh dear Lee, you've shot yerself in both feet this time....
Herbert Schnitzer?
Heinrich Baumgartner and Klaus Brand establish a small manufacturing plant for plastic body parts in Schiltach. The initials of both founders and the city are the basis of the name BBS.


---Picture the scene; a typical day in E30zone School, class 5D

OK class, PAY ATTENTION Lee; if I have to tell you again....

Let's have some examples of Good designers, but with what Lee calls a crap first name....

Burkard Bovensiepen (Alpina)
Ralph Lauren
Coco Channel
Christian Dior
Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin, André Courrèges, and Emanuel Ungaro.
Christian Marie Marc Lacroix
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Thierry Mugler.

Bauhaus (OK it's a 'movement' not a person)

And the pattern is? They ain't english

Heinrich and Klaus are cool names.. Herbert is not (and why i have my BBS on )

BUT...before i put my schnitzers back on i only need to convince myself (and others who may ask) that Herbert from Frielassing is cooler than Herbert from Merzig plus i feel his brother Josef was more the driving force for Schnitzer and this shows in his designs....

blaktoutbm wrote:Deep Dish BBS

I'd have to agree that these look the best of what's on offer so far but can they be got for an E30?

If so what is the BBS model/offset of them and do you have to convert your hubs to 5 stud to accept them?

Sorry if it's an obvious answer!

Borbet Type B.................Holla!!!!

http://www.tunershop.co.uk/uk/shop.php? ... 9195b2e3c7

These are sweet thou;

when will people learn 15 or 16" wheels are as big as an e30 can handle and of these bbs alpina and hartge and mim are all acceptable modern wheels are at variance with the cars retro looks and will make you and the car look wrong mark you out as a chav and reduce the value of your car.

pnd wrote:when will people learn 15 or 16" wheels are as big as an e30 can handle and of these bbs alpina and hartge and mim are all acceptable modern wheels are at variance with the cars retro looks and will make you and the car look wrong mark you out as a chav and reduce the value of your car.

When will others learn that everyone has their own opinions and therefore style their car according to their individual taste.

Personally I'm not very fond of Hartge wheels but I don't come on here telling Cotty or others that they look Sh!t.

Everyone to their own, I say!! Perhaps others think that your car looks terrible!

For someone thats so staunch in their views you dont even have a pic of your car as an avatar or sig even though you're on here over 15 months!!

blaktoutbm wrote:Deep Dish BBS

PLEASE DONT POST PICTURES LIKE THAT... They make me loose concentration at work for long periods of time... YUM!

pnd wrote:when will people learn 15 or 16" wheels are as big as an e30 can handle and of these bbs alpina and hartge and mim are all acceptable modern wheels are at variance with the cars retro looks and will make you and the car look wrong mark you out as a chav and reduce the value of your car.

you have the last bit wrong if you want to look like a chav go for
some wolfrace wheels or some tat like that.

If your going for 17's, Azev A's without a doubt. I know they're old but they look like they were made for the E30.
If your going for 15's, BBS RS's.

pnd wrote:when will people learn 15 or 16" wheels are as big as an e30 can handle and of these bbs alpina and hartge and mim are all acceptable modern wheels are at variance with the cars retro looks and will make you and the car look wrong mark you out as a chav and reduce the value of your car.

I think if you'd put a bit of punctuation in this sentence, most people would have agreed with you. Let's not forget the deep-dish euro-look is as old as the E30.

MrLee - LOL good answer....except the bit about Klaus being a cool name; it's not is it? .

jonmsm wrote:

blaktoutbm wrote:Deep Dish BBS

PLEASE DONT POST PICTURES LIKE THAT... They make me loose concentration at work for long periods of time... YUM!

Ditto, do they not do deep dish bbs in 4 stud?

I want these now!!!

Ditto, do they not do deep dish bbs in 4 stud?

I want these now!!![/quote]

You can buy the dishes seperately if you want deeper ones.

Please explain - How? Where? Got money burning a hole in my pocket and a bottomless cash pit for an E30. And would be better than spending money on drugs, booze, gambling and stippers, hell of a party tho!

March109, your a joker!

Always some on ebay.de but there's also a site called schaulies.com that sell BBS stuff. It's in German though and i had to get my sister to translate for me . Most of it's easy to understand though.

Alternatively, you can donate some of that cash to www.fixadrians325.com lol

Just looked at schaulies.com thank you, thank you and thank you!

snooka wrote:http://members.nusurf.at/klingerhelmut/ ... e_styling/

have fun it can give you ideas

what a great link.

Alpina or deep-dish bbs for me....

sorry, but i dislike Hartge rims.

except the bit about Klaus being a cool name; it's not is it?

was going to be the name of my first born until you mentioned that, wasn't a ''Klaus'' one of the baddies in Die Hard ??? and he was the windsurfing fellow in the old coffee adverts (Cafe Haag?? if i remember, he was ubercool )